114: Is your son Li Zhiwei?
"I'm at the Convenience Store at the Yunhai Road intersection right now. The Old Woman has a bit of heatstroke and is currently in my car enjoying the air conditioner. You need to come over quickly and take her for a check-up."
Chen Kai said this indifferently and hung up the phone before the person on the other end could finish thanking him.
With such an impatient attitude, one would think it was his own mother who had been saved!
After making the call, Chen Kai opened the car door to check on the Old Woman. After eating and drinking, her complexion had clearly improved and was much rosier.
After taking a bottle of Traditional Chinese Medicine, her symptoms of dizziness and nausea from heatstroke had also improved significantly.
"Ma'am, do you feel a bit more comfortable?"
Chen Kai asked with a smile while leaning against the car door.
"Oh my, much better. Thank you, Young Man."
The Old Woman wiped the sweat from her forehead. After going through this experience, her resolve to run away from home began to waver slightly.
"Screech!"
Just then, a sharp, screeching sound of brakes rang out behind Chen Kai. He turned around to see a black audi a6.
As soon as the car stopped, a man in a hurry ran out from the driver's seat. He was wearing a white shirt with a jacket over it and shouted anxiously, "Where is my mother!"
Chen Kai was stunned. Isn't this the county magistrate who bought his bezoar? Could this be Li Zhiwei's mother?
Could it really be such a coincidence?
Chen Kai suddenly felt that he could piece the clues together. The Old Woman wanted to run away from home because she didn't have the bezoar to use as an ingredient for her medicine, and she had become seriously ill.
From Li Zhiwei's phone call last night, it was clear that buying a fresh bezoar might affect his career prospects. His mother didn't want her son's career to be affected, so she chose to run away from home.
Li Zhiwei was also stunned. He froze on the spot, staring at Chen Kai with a look of astonishment.
"It's you again?"
"You saved my mother?"
Li Zhiwei was a bit bewildered. He wouldn't forget what Chen Kai looked like anytime soon. He suspected that this was someone asking him for a favor who had learned through other channels that he needed a bezoar.
But he had waited all night, and never received a call from Chen Kai. He had felt a vague sense of unease, and he never expected that when his mother ran away from home, it was Chen Kai who helped find her!
"Damn, I was about to ask you the same thing. This lost Old Woman is your mother?"
Chen Kai asked, deliberately playing dumb, since his persona last night was that of an honest, simple farmer.
A flash of doubt crossed Li Zhiwei's eyes, but he nodded and immediately rushed to the car to check on the Old Woman.
Looking into the car, the Old Woman was drinking a beverage, her complexion was rosy as she enjoyed the air conditioner, and there were almost no symptoms of heatstroke left.
"Mom, why did you run out by yourself?"
"You really scared me to death! If something had happened to you, I would have had a psychological burden for the rest of my life!"
A look of emotion appeared on Li Zhiwei's square, broad face. When he found out his mother was missing, his mind had gone blank, and he had already started to feel afraid.
His mother had done manual labor, working three jobs a day to send him from the countryside to university. He had worked hard to become a county magistrate, but he hadn't yet given his mother a good life. If she had been lost or had an accident, he would have felt guilty for the rest of his life.
A look of guilt also crossed the Old Woman's face, and her voice trembled slightly.
"Mom couldn't watch you make a mistake..."
"Mom! What are you saying? I've already bought the bezoar. Yesterday, a comrade happened to go to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic to sell a bezoar, and I intercepted him. Don't worry about it, just go back with me and get treated."
Li Zhiwei smiled faintly and helped the Old Woman out of the car. "Mom, I'm taking you to the hospital for a check-up. Running out alone on such a hot day, do you want to worry me to death? Fortunately, you met a kind person."
Li Zhiwei helped the Old Woman from the back seat of Chen Kai's mercedes-benz gle into the audi a6. After closing the door, he walked slowly to Chen Kai's side, his expression indifferent and his voice low.
"Tell me, what do you need me to help you with?"
Regardless of who this Young Man was, he had truly helped him twice with major issues.
Even with his secretary and driver, and so many people searching together, they hadn't found her, yet Chen Kai had found her.
Chen Kai was stunned, looking at him as if he were an idiot. "You're overthinking it, right? I just saw an Old Woman on the side of the road who was about to faint."
"I was afraid something might happen to her, so I bought a bottle of water, bought some food, and let her get in my car to enjoy the air conditioner. That's all."
Li Zhiwei responded indifferently, his eyes filled with contemplation.
"How about this? I'll add you on WeChat. After I take my mom for a check-up, I'll thank you in person."
Chen Kai nodded, feeling a faint excitement in his heart. The forty thousand yuan was about to be in his hands.
He displayed his WeChat QR code. Li Zhiwei scanned it to add him as a friend, then returned to his car with a strange expression, impossible to read.
Chen Kai smiled faintly, watching the audi a6 gradually drive away, before picking up his phone to check Li Zhiwei's WeChat.
Out of the corner of his eye, he inadvertently saw a message in the Family Group.
【Great Aunt: My son has arrived home. Does anyone want to go for a ride in his new car?】
【By the way, everyone can come to the restaurant to eat. If you arrive late, don't blame us for not waiting for everyone to be here before we eat.】
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Chen Kai looked at the photo in the group. His cousin really did pick up a magotan.
Just showing off. Zero down payment, fifteen thousand a month in repayments, and a salary of only thirteen thousand. Isn't it you two who have to pay it off?
【Second Aunt: Our family will be a bit late. My son is highly valued by his leader. You all know who my son is driving for. They went out to look for someone together, so I have to wait for my son to return before we can come over.】
【Great Aunt: Oh my! Don't delay your son's important business! We'll wait for your family to arrive before we start the meal.】
【Old Uncle: My son will be here soon too, but it's a pity his girlfriend didn't come back with him.】
【Has that kid Chen Kai arrived home yet? Did he come back alone?】
Chen Kai snorted disdainfully, got back into his car, and immediately started it to go home. A family gathering? Why wouldn't he go? If he didn't go, wouldn't it be a waste of his wealth?
Just after returning home, at his parents' repeated insistence, Chen Kai acted as a laborer and moved the gifts from Liu Yunshang and Tang Yunshu back into the car...
Only then did he set off for the hotel to pick up Liu Yunshang and Tang Yunshu, those two eager young ladies.
Halfway there, Chen Kai parked the car at a roadside supermarket. Since he was going to see relatives he hadn't seen in a long time, it wouldn't be good to go empty-handed.
Then he would just buy three bottles of cola, one for each person, so no one would fight over it.
After finding out he was rich, these fair-weather relatives would probably be dying to chug the cola immediately, right? Putting on a little show.
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On the other side, at the County People's Hospital, in the Dean's office.
Three people were sitting in the room. Dean Wang looked at the various test result sheets and let out a long sigh of relief, his face full of lingering fear.
"Thank goodness! Thank goodness you brought your mother in early, County Magistrate Li!!!"